Today was my preantepenultimate work day at IBM. I met my friend Rhonda, with whom I shared an office at IBM at one time, and with whom I shared more laughs than I can possibly recall. I hadn’t seen her in about a year, and when we decided—on IBM’s internal instant message system—to meet at … Read more
I slept in this morning, getting a full eight hours of glorious sleep. I devised a separate blog entry for today called Financially Independent vs. Independently Wealthy, which was inspired by the question of a friend in a recent e-mail he sent to me congratulating me on my achievement and my leaving IBM. It is currently a … Read more
I began on my penultimate edit for IBM this morning, working from home. At lunch time, I met Joe over at Helios to work from there for the rest of the day. At 3:00, I ran over to NC State to turn in a required security form and my I-9 form with “one form of … Read more
Robert arrived at a little after 11:00, and he grilled the chicken breasts that I had marinated in McCormick Grill Mates Zesty Herb Marinade. I put on some Betty Crocker Scalloped Potatoes (which turned out to be out of this world), and we enjoyed some shrimp cocktail dipped in Heinz Cocktail Sauce, while the chicken … Read more
My workout today consisted stretching, strengthening and cardio. For the stretching, I used that sheet for back strengthening I found last night, and when I got to about the six exercise on it, I noticed that one of the models in the picture looks like @abbyladybug! And then it occurred to me that all of … Read more
I worked from home this morning. I was expecting a call from a personal trainer (as part of IBM’s free Lifeworks program) at 10:00, but she called at 11:00. Turns out she was on central time. We had a great chat about my current workout situation. She said that while the 300 crunches I’ve been doing—particularly … Read more
We got a good eight hours sleep, and were up shortly before the 9:00 alarm clock setting. Robert make coffee, and we had a little piece of a roll, two sausage patties each, and some cantaloupe for our breakfast. To go to the gym, I packed up, along with clothes to change into after working … Read more
Good week for… Bad week for… Supplemental income, after Mick Jagger turned 65, becoming eligible for a state pension of $180 a week. The getaway, after police arrested Sean Gallagher of Illinois on charges he robbed the same gas station three times in recent months. After the third robbery, a gas station employee pointed Gallagher … Read more
Kevin (av8rdude) and I worked from home this morning. We had bagels for breakfast and ham and Swiss wraps for lunch. We worked from Helios this afternoon, where Joe joined us. I was in line for a Single Iced Skinny Caramella Sugar Free, when the little girl in front of me asked the young barista in … Read more
I was up at 9:00 this morning, and downstairs to brewing coffee by 9:09. Kevin (av8rdude) came down shortly after that and we each had a bagel from the six I bought yesterday while we were at Bruegger’s. He had crunchy peanut butter on his. I had butter on half of mine, and lite plain … Read more